THROUGH JUBALAND TO THE LORIAN SWAMP
First edition of this account of the Anglo-French cartographer's explorations in Jubaland, now a member state of Somalia, illustrated with the author's own photographs and maps.
First edition of this account of the Anglo-French cartographer's explorations in Jubaland, now a member state of Somalia, illustrated with the author's own photographs and maps.
First edition in English of Exquemelin's illustrated history of famous pirates, the central primary source on the subject during its most famous era, with the continuation by Ringrose.
First printing of this history of various artforms in Nigeria, including beadwork, brass work, carving, pottery, and weaving – illustrated with photographs of objects and diagrams by Michael Foreman.
First edition of the world-famous "Diary of a Young Girl," a moving monument of the Holocaust and Nazi Germany's cataclysmic destruction of individual lives, communities, and cultures.
Sammelband of five French titles in one volume, including a contemporary court argument against an abusive man who employed a chastity belt to control a woman — evidently, a true account of a device frequently thought apocryphal.
First edition of this hunting and wildlife manual published by the government of what was formerly Italian Somaliland, illustrated with the faces, figures, and footprints of the Bat-Eared Fox, Common Genet, assorted antelopes and others, many of which are protected.
First edition of this historical overview and contemporary portrait of social, religious, and domestic life in Turkey of the early 20th century.
First edition in English of this reflection on the tactics and methods used by General George Grivas in the the liberation of Cyprus and elsewhere – a rare title, particularly in dust jacket.
First paperback printing of this 1958 account of capturing and handing over for execution the leader of the Mau Mau uprising by proud British imperialist and 'Butcher of Bahrain' Ian Henderson, assisted by Conservative MP Goodhart.
First edition of this comical post-war chronicle of culture shock, a witty survey of the everyday differences that US servicemen will experience at home after living in occupied Japan.
First edition in modern English of the complete ANGLO-SAXON CHRONICLE, a key historical document of the Early Medieval era composed during the reign of Alfred the Great.
First edition of this book of collected writings by the American Presbyterian missionary, regarding 19th-century Syrian customs and his dedicated efforts to interfere with them.
First edition of this lavishly produced history of French military campaigns and costumes, with emphasis on Napoleon and the Grand Imperial Army.
Scarce American edition of the bookseller's Confessions, with one of the earliest Brooklyn imprints.
A history of Oxford University by the academic and folklorist.
Beautiful late 17th-century edition of a central primary source in the conquest of the Americas, bound somewhat incongruously with an early edition of French buccaneer Montaubon's 1695 voyage to the Caribbean.
First printing of this beautifully illustrated history of the Blackfeet people, as told by the Montanan ethnographer and Native ally.
First edition of the final African journals of Scottish missionary, abolitionist, and explorer David Livingstone, including his own account of the famous meeting with Stanley.
First edition of this brief publication dedicated to a select number of Germans fallen in World War II, accompanied by an original signed woodcut by Gerhard Marcks.
Uncommon account of the life of a South African ostrich farmer near the turn of the twentieth century.
First edition of this collaborative record of the authors' travels in East Africa from Sudan to the Kenyan Rift Valley, with text by Matthiessen and striking color photographs by Porter.
Deluxe limited first edition, in a striking Art Deco binding, of this midcentury popular history of England.
Uncommon first US edition and first English translation of this major work by the French medieval historian, with an admiring foreword by Katherine Anne Porter.
Prescott's most popular title, identified as his "masterpiece" by biographers, which had a strong impact on the study of Mesoamerica (Gardiner).
Press photographs (with agency stamps from Keystone, AGIP, and United Press Photos) taken around the time of the trial and imprisonment of Regis Debray in Muyupampa, Bolivia.